Description: Using the Bible as the foundational source and guide, while also bringing contemporary sociological data to the conversation, seven biblical scholars and theologians construct a powerful dialogue about gun violence in America, concluding that guns are incompatible with the God of Christian Scripture.
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C. L. Crouch is David Allan Hubbard Professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary. She is the author of War and Ethics in the Ancient Near East, Israel and the Assyrians, The Making of Israel, An Introduction to the Study of Jeremiah, and Translating Empire (cowritten with, with J. M. Hutton). She is current President of the Pacific Coast Region of the Society of Biblical Literature and serves on the editorial boards of several series, including Westminster John Knox Press's Old Testament Library, for which she is writing a volume on the book of Amos.